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When you discover that a site is worth reading, it's nice to have a program keep track of what's happening at the site so that you don't have to keep checking back. Also, if you are in some way responsible for what is written on certain web pages, it is nice to have a program tell you when those pages have been changed.

Reading web sites via an RSS reader is also very efficient. You can look at an article's summary before deciding if something is worth delving into.

Reading web sites via an RSS reader helps you be more disciplined. If you carefully choose what you subscribe to, you'll end up reading what is important to you. Following links on the web tends to be more random, which can be fun, but is likey to make you a less purposeful reader.